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Be a Macgyver: Coolest Fire Making Tricks
wordpress.com — Here's a list of the absolute coolest ways to make fire, when you have just a couple of weird items! If you're alone in the desert, playing 'survivor' with your friends or just wanna impress some girls - this is perfect for you. Also, there's some very interesting scientific stuff in there. The potato trick is pretty cool!More ( Survival )
Fire - More than one way to cook a dog
ssrsi.org — Fire - Man's best friend, or dreaded enemy. Article details the how to's.More ( Survival )
caericNo Fire in the Hole!: Flame-Retardant Grenades
sciam.com — A new grenade-like gadget designed to quickly extinguish flames in small quarters, thereby limiting injury to victims as well as firefighters is becoming an important part of firemen's arsenals. The device, available to firefighters since December, is a means of knocking down or even extinguishing fires in rooms, basements and attics. The FIT-5 (price tag: around $1,300) is a nine-pound ...More ( Tech News )
Ultimate Survival BlastMatch / WetFire Tinder Fire-Starter Kit for Military Ops
ultimatesurvival.com — Ultimate Survival BlastMatch is a compact, pocket-carry, all-weather, high-performance non-magnesium "flint material" fire starter device that was designed specifically for both downed U.S. Air Force fighter pilots and civilian mountain climbers while they are injured and operating in adverse conditions (wind, rain, snow, alpine/high-altitude, etc.). As such, an individual can operate BlastMatch one-handed. BlastMatch fire starter generates a stream of ...More ( Survival )
"Searing" Images of Forest Fires & Firefighterswatch!
The Firefighting Robot
popsci.com — Might have to stuff a couple of these in the closet. Only a concept now, OLE (short for Off-road Loescheinheit, which means off-road extinguishing apparatus in German) is a product of the industrial-design studio at the University of Magdeburg-Stendal, about an hour and a half west of Berlin. A robot equipped with tanks of water and powdered fire-extinguishing agents, OLE ...More ( Tech News )
Model "T" Fire Piston
ildwoodsurvival.com — There are various things to have on you in a survival situation - the best is to have a fire piston. The environment is full of burnables - but if you have now flame, you're sunk. Personally I prefer another model myself, but this is a great how to article.More ( Survival )
Molotov Cocktail Baseballwatch!
Little known fact, Molotov cocktail baseball was actually one of Charles Darwin's favorite sports to watch.
More ( Media )Fire starting like a rich bastard
likecool.com — Burn your money today! Pretend you have money to burn by lighting your fire with a fake roll of $100's. When you use these Money to Burn Fire Starterss($13/6 money roll), you had better let somebody see it! It can also light your fine hand-rolled Cuban cigar, Cool!More ( Tools )
Shooter Fire Extinguisher
ubergizmo.com — Do you know how to use a fire extinguisher? or would you figure it out under pressure? It makes putting out a fire as easy as aiming and pulling the trigger, which will send a cannon round full of CO? at the blaze. If that doesn't put it out, just keep firing you've got eight shells in there. An alarm ...More ( Tools )